“Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in the lack, not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself.” DesireFeltLossEmotionDecidedFulfillmentContentmentGapsAnticipationRetreatAche Author:Kiran Desai
“Jemu watched his father disappear. He didn't throw the coconut and he didn't cry. Never again would he know love for another human being that wasn't adulterated by another, contradictory emotion.” KnowsHumansFatherHuman BeingsEmotionCryDisappearContradictoryCoconuts Book:The Inheritance of Loss Source: The Inheritance of Loss
